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Windows 7 Computer turns itself off after about 15-20 minutes of usage
OS: Windows 7 Ultimate x64 Service Pack 1 "Whitebox" custom case Intel Quad Core Q8200 @ 2.33 Ghz 4 GB RAM @ 800 MHz Sapphire ATI Radeon 4850 320 GB WDC Harddrive Gigabyte G31M-ES2L Motherboard Initially I had problems with the video output not working. The computer would boot up before the...- technicbuff
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Windows 8 HP recalls 6 million computer cords for fire risk
HP is warning customers: Check your laptop charging cord to see if it's at risk of overheating. Hewlett-Packard (HPQ, Tech30) and federal regulators on Tuesday recalled 6 million power cords sold between September 2010 and June 2012 with some HP and Compaq notebook computers, as well as certain...- themonk
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Windows 7 critical administrative event 41 windows 7 computer random shutdown during gaming
I have been having an issue with my system just simply shutting down without any warning almost as if a power outage occurred. No blue screen no notifications nothing. It has happened 4 times now while playing a game in particular. When the power goes out I cant turn the computer back on for...- Niko92
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- amd cooling cpu critical error ddr3 ram error logs event viewer gaming gtx 760 kernel power motherboard overheating power loss psu random shutdown shutdown silverstone system crash windows 7
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Windows 8 Problems I think caused by updates, help needed!
Hi all, I've been having some problems with my laptop recently. I have Windows 8 installed on an Acer V3-571g and about a week ago I started to get BSOD with two errors KERNEL_DATA_INPAGE_ERROR and CRITICAL_PROCESS DIED. After playing around with sfc/scannow etc, I decided to completed reset...- mrbennnyc
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- acer bsod corruption fix critical process error codes graphics card hardware issues kernel error overheating reset sfc scan system stability troubleshooting update issues user support warranty windows 8 windows update
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- Forum: Windows Help and Support
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Windows 7 Windows uses the fan so much.
Windows almost abuses the fan on my laptop. Toshiba Satellite C875-S7303. Whenever I try to run Borderlands 2, while loading the game the laptop overheated. Windows 8 (which came with the laptop) did the same thing, then I wiped it and put Ubuntu 13.04 on it and it never overheated. Is there a...- Coroff
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- borderlands crash fans laptop overheating performance thermal management toshiba ubuntu windows
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- Forum: Windows Help and Support
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Windows 7 Gaming related BSODs, probably direct X
Diagnostics are attached. The BSODs seem to be mainly when gaming although not only. The games in specific are smite, it also crashes when I play Civ V but, only when I'm streaming Netflix on my second monitor but, not if I'm watching something via VLC. I recently upgraded my GPU from a 7790...- Scase
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- amd bsod civ v configuration diagnostics directx drivers error gaming gpu hardware memtest overheating performance psu sapphire streaming system upgrade windows 7
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- Forum: Windows Blue Screen of Death (BSOD)
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Windows 8 My computers got a hole in it and I might drown!
Hi My liquid cooling system is leaking. I got the message when a blue screen opened up and said that there was a problems and my computer was shutting down. When I booted backup I was forced into setup where I got another message saying that my CPU had exceeded 90C and had shut down to...- MikeHawthorne
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- Forum: Windows Help and Support
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Windows 7 BSOD, usually when watching a video ??
Greetings... I recently joined the forum to try and find the source of my issues. This started happening back in November shortly after a MS update. It usually happens when watching streaming video in Chrome or FFox and with many tabs open and both browsers running. After my PC goes belly-up...- JoeD
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- asus bsod chrome cpu temperature crucial drivers dump files dx11 firefox heat issues multitasking overheating performance power supply ram streaming system crash troubleshooting windows 7 windows update
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- Forum: Windows Blue Screen of Death (BSOD)
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Windows 7 Need help- Fan problem
Hello, I would like some help with my Laptop. When I turn it on, it overheats and shuts down in about 5 minutes. Now I know, you might say It's the fan clogged with dust, But I tried booting it yesterday and the fan was actually working. I always keep my laptop on the desk so I don't...- Vince Vaughn
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- boot cooling dust fans hardware laptop overheating performance shutdown technology
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Windows 7 Random BSODs when gaming
Hi everybody In the last few months i've been experiencing some real issues with my computer (specs are below). It randomly freezes up when I'm playing games, or even when I've just closed the game and want to open a 2D application: every time I start an application just after I've played a...- Marcus85it
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- asus bsod clean install corsair cpu crash drivers furmark gaming gtx 670 hardware intel memtest86 minidump overheating performance prime95 system freeze troubleshooting vga
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- Forum: Windows Blue Screen of Death (BSOD)
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Windows 7 Keeping Your Cool
Electronics and certainly PCs do not like heat. It is important that these devices stay cool @ all times and throughout their lifetime. That said, here is one of those "Best Practice" things that I suggest all too often does not even occur to people and that they do not think about or do on...- Drew
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- airflow best practices computer care cooling core temp cpu dust removal electronics fans gpu hardware maintenance overheating pc cleanup periodic tasks preventive maintenance preventive measures temperature thermal management utility
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- Forum: Windows Tutorials
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Windows 8 Keeping Your Cool
Electronics and certainly PCs do not like heat. It is important that these devices stay cool @ all times and throughout their lifetime. That said, here is one of those "Best Practice" things that I suggest all too often does not even occur to people and that they do not think about or do on...- Drew
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- airflow best practices cleaning computer care cooling core temp cpu dust removal electronics fans gpu hardware care heat maintenance overheating preventive maintenance temperature control thermal management utilization ventilation
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- Forum: Windows Tutorials
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Windows 7 BSOD Wdf01000.sys just started out of the blue?
Hey, Two days ago after using computer for over a year (Acer Veriton Windows 7, core i7) started bsod randomly and only shows post symptoms in event viewer. ran Bluscreenview and it states: "The problem seems to be caused by the following file: Wdf01000.sys DRIVER_IRQL_NOT LESS_OR EQUAL STOP...- oneno
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- acer veriton blue screen bsod chkdsk driver issues driver patch driver verifier error event viewer hardware issues maintenance malware memory diagnostic overheating system repair system restore troubleshooting wdf01000.sys windows 7
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- Forum: Windows Blue Screen of Death (BSOD)
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Windows 7 Random BSOD's + Dmp's
I get random bsod's every day after i have been used my computer for few hours, my computer is relatevely new and i have cleaned the hardware so its not overheating or atleast i think its not. here is the dmps- darnn
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- bsod computer dump files error codes hardware overheating random issues system stability troubleshooting windows
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- Forum: Windows Blue Screen of Death (BSOD)
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Windows 8 New Windows 8 PC Randomly Shutting Down
I have been monitoring the temperatures using Speccy, all very reasonable (CPU 30-35C, Mobo 28-35C) How can I check what is causing this problem? Does it report the error codes somewhere that caused the shut down? The CPU fan has been having a problem where every 10 minutes it spins up to...- CoolDudeClan
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- cpu fan diagnostics error codes hardware issues monitoring overheating random shutdown speccy temperature windows 8
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- Forum: Windows Help and Support
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Windows XP Intel Pentium 4 HT 3.00 Maximum Temperature
I just got around to installing Speedfan on my IBM ThinkCentre M52 and was surprised at how hot it is running (see screenshot)Both the processor and internal hard drives are much higher than I'm accustomed to. I know that the hard drive is too hot, but with the design of the case, I can't think...- seekermeister
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- case design cooling fan design hard drive hardware ibm intel monitoring overheating pentium performance processor speedfan temperature thermal management thinkcentre
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- Forum: Windows Help and Support
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Windows 7 Loss of power of laptop; no bluescreen.
Playing a game and quite often the screen blacks out. When I alt-tab it goes to windows logon, making me log in to my account again. After about 4 or 5 of these occurrences the laptop just shuts itself down. No bluescreen and the charger's in with 100% of battery. I have enabled minidump...- GeneralHiningII
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- battery black screen games laptop login issues minidump overheating performance power issues settings shutdown specs tech support troubleshooting upload w7f warm windows
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- Forum: Windows Blue Screen of Death (BSOD)
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Windows 7 Frequent BSODs During Multitasking and Gaming: Possible Overheating Issues?
For the past week i've been having BSODs but only when i multi-task or run demanding games. I think it might be my computer overheating but i'm not sure. My logs, hardware, info, etc is attached. Couldn't find the dump file...- illuvatar
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- bsod dump files gaming hardware logs multitasking overheating performance system issues troubleshooting
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- Forum: Windows Blue Screen of Death (BSOD)
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Windows 7 Laptop Motherboard Issue!
i have a dell inspiron m5030 laptop. when i boot it up, there's a blank screen, and beeps. 7 beeps to be exact, indicating that there's motherboard failure. i read a fix on dell's website, quoted as follows: i did this fix, and it worked! but now everytime i shut down my laptop afterwards, i...- clydefrog
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- beep codes blank screen comforter fix dell electronics fix hardware issues inspiron laptop maintenance motherboard overheating performance power issues repair solutions support tips troubleshooting
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Windows 7 GPU Over Use
Unless I am playing games from XP or older my GPU runs at 80-99% usage. When I am on my desktop the GPU idles at 0% and depending on which Graphics card I have in either 30-35 degrees Celsius or 40-50 degrees Celsius. When I am in-game though on any game but the old XP ones no matter which...- Geysergod
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- gaming gpu graphics card nvidia optimization overheating performance radeon system specs temperature thermal management usage windows 7
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- Forum: Windows Games